Studies in Stoicism

P. A. Brunt Edited by Miriam Griffin, Alison Samuels, and with the assistance of Michael Crawford

Brings together the important papers from a key historian on the study of Stoicism

Contains six unpublished essays as well as a complete bibliography of Peter Brunt's work

Updates and corrects material previously published elsewhere

Studies in Stoicism

P. A. Brunt Edited by Miriam Griffin, Alison Samuels, and with the assistance of Michael Crawford

Description

This important volume fulfills one of Peter Brunt's (1917 - 2005) last wishes: a collection of his most important papers in the area of scholarship that had occupied him in his earliest years of research, and which largely absorbed his attention after his retirement from the Camden Chair of Roman History at Oxford University in 1982.

Brunt was interested primarily in Stoicism in the Roman period, and his chief concern was the practical influence of its ethical teaching on political and social life. Although his investigations were historical, they required a complete mastery of the Stoic texts and doctrine. Basing his work almost entirely on the ancient sources, Brunt provides the most complete account and comparison available today not only of the ideas of the Roman Stoic moralists, but also of the political philosophy of the Greek founders of the Stoa. He believed that the ideas of the Stoics of the Roman period were essentially continuous with the thinking of the founders, and he did not accept that the concern with practical everyday morality in later Stoicism was a new development.

Studies in Stoicism contains six unpublished and seven republished essays, the latter incorporating additions and changes which Brunt wished to be made. The papers have been integrated and arranged in roughly chronological order and by subject matter, with an accessible lecture to the Oxford Philological Society serving as Brunt's own introduction.

Studies in Stoicism

P. A. Brunt Edited by Miriam Griffin, Alison Samuels, and with the assistance of Michael Crawford

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction Miriam Griffin & Alison Samuels1. Chrysippus on Practical Morality2. Political Attitudes of the Old Stoa3. Morality and Social Convention in Stoic Thought4. Aspects of the social thought of Dio Chrysostom and the Stoics5. Panaetius in De Officiis6. Cicero's Officium in the Civil War7. Stoicism and the Principate8. High Ranking Stoics under the Principate9. From Epictetus to Arrian10. Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations11. Marcus Aurelius and Slavery12. Marcus Aurelius and the Christians13. Late Stoic MoralistsBibliography of the works of P.A.Brunt Michael CrawfordBibliography to the unpublished papers Index

Studies in Stoicism

P. A. Brunt Edited by Miriam Griffin, Alison Samuels, and with the assistance of Michael Crawford

Author Information

P. A. Brunt was formerly Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford.